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"In 1897 a family of six was murdered in rural North Dakota. Several Dakota Indians from Standing Rock reservation were arrested, tried, pronounced guilty, and sentenced to hanged. This work gathers together many documents, including the transcript of the trial, along with the author's commentary, telling a disturbing tale of racism and revenge in the pioneer West"--

Examining popular injustice -- Legacies of terror in postwar Guatemala -- Militarization, lynchings, and the legacies of terror -- Modernization, crime, and communities in crisis -- Civil society and the contradictions of neoliberal democracy -- Convergence at the poles (and not at the polls).

Terror Flyers is a carefully researched new account of a little-known area of WWII History. It examines the violent attacks and lynchings of Jewish and African American airman in WWII. It counters a commonly held belief that "average Germans" didn't participate in war crimes against Allied soldiers generally, and airmen specifically Terror Flyers narrative, and readable style should appeal to armchair historians and scholars alike. Terrors Flyers details how Nazi propaganda towards Black airmen was inspired by US publications.

Der Lynchmord an Leo Frank gilt als das bekannteste Beispiel antisemitischer Gewalt in der Geschichte der USA. Doch wie Kristoff Kerl zeigt, kommt der sich über zwei Jahre erstreckenden Affäre (1913–1915) noch eine weit zentralere Bedeutung zu: In ihrem Verlauf wurde bereits zuvor bestehendes antisemitisches Gedankengut befeuert und zu einer kohärenten antisemitischen Weltsicht zusammengefügt. Dies geschah auf einer geschlechtliche codierten Bedeutungsebene – der moderne Antisemitismus und die ihm inhärente Gewalt waren Reaktionen auf gesellschaftlichen Wandel, der im Süden nicht zuletzt als Gefahr einer hegemonialen Geschlechterordnung verstanden wurde. Die Studie blickt zum einen auf die Entstehungsbedingungen des Leo-Frank Case, zum anderen wendet sie sich dem unmittelbar im Anschluss an den Fall neugegründeten Ku-Klux-Klan zu und fragt nach den Effekten der antisemitischen Affäre.

"In a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa examines in detail the convulsions of the revolutionary year from March 1917 to March 1918 through the lens of violent crime, police behavior, and the responses of ordinary people in the capital city, St. Petersburg. A frightening rise in crime, especially violent crime, threatened the daily life of ordinary citizens. They often took the law into their own hands, and frequently resorted to mob justice, a reflection of the breakdown of the social fabric as well as the psychological state of people uneasy about or threatened by the changes going on around them. Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution examines how the new police power created under the Provisional Government broke down, the nature of the crimes threatening the city, and how people reacted. It then explores how violent crime continued to rise under the Bolshevik regime, and what the Bolsheviks did to control upheaval in the streets. The result is a new way of looking at the nature of Bolshevik power after the October Revolution. The violent explosion of drunken pogroms in November and December 1917 greatly shocked the Bolshevik leadership. Unlike previous works that treat them as a minor episode, this book considers the drunken pogroms the crucial turning point of the Bolsheviks' policy on the maintenance of law and order. The Bolshevik leadership reconstituted the police as a strongly centralized force with power over the local forces and militias, establishing a top-down pattern of control that would continue, even intensify, when the capital was moved to Moscow"--

This study explores the relationship between the American liberal regime and the illiberal act of lynching. It explores the federal government's pattern of non-intervention regarding the lynchings of African Americans from the late 19th century to the 1960s. Although popular belief holds that the federal government was unable to address racial violence in the South, Kato argues that its actions and decisions show that federal inaction was not primarily a consequence of institutional or legal incapacities, but rather a decision supported and maintained by all three branches of the federal government

Ivan Evans compares two countries that are widely studied and of broad interest because of their histories of racial domination. He sheds light on the intersection of religious, legal and economic factors at play in forging, sustaining and challenging racial domination